The idea to out-touch the competition came the way most good ideas do: over a couple of beers.

"The conversation came up and we looked on the web and noticed that Emerald had the record and we thought, well if Emerald can do it...."

Rules of engagement

To beat the record, they can only have 14 players a side and both teams need to have six players on the field at all times.

And there's no such thing as half time.

"We're looking at probably rotating nine or 10 players at each time therefore we would have four or five players resting," said Ms Geiger.

"In the middle of the night, we can actually get down to four players on each team and that is still legally a touch game."

While she's not too worried about the players' fitness, she does think it will be tricky to bribe people out of their swags at 3am for a rotation.

Touching for cancer

When Mackay Touch Football announced their scheme, they had so much support from sponsors they figured they might as well raise money for charity at the same time.

"Cancer does affect basically everyone in their lifetime in some way so we went with prostate cancer and the national breast cancer foundations of Australia... so we've got a pink team and a blue team."

So far they've raised nearly $10,000.

The game kicks off at 9am on Saturday May 17 will finish up on Sunday afternoon.